After a canceled 2020 edition and a scaled back gathering last year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a live satellite video address from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Formally attired stars including Eva Longoria, Julianne Moore, Bérénice Bejo and “No Time to Die” star Lashana Lynch were among those who streamed down Cannes’ famous red carpet Tuesday for the opening of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and the premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy “Final Cut.” Also Read: Arefin Shuvo to attend Cannes film festival Tuesday More star-studded premieres — “Top Gun: Maverick!” “Elvis!” — await over the next 12 days, during which 21 films will vie for the festival’s prestigious top award, the Palme d’Or. But Tuesday’s opening and the carefully choreographed red-carpet parade leading up the steps to the Grand Théâtre Lumiére again restored one of the movies’ grandest pageants after two years of pandemic that have challenged the exalted stature Cannes annually showers on cinema. But the war in Ukraine was in Cannes’ spotlight Tuesday. During the festival’s opening ceremony, Zelenskyy spoke at length about the connection between cinema and reality, referencing films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” as not unlike Ukraine’s present circumstances.    

Popular film star Arifin Shuvo will leave Dhaka for Cannes on Tuesday to attend the 75th Cannes Film Festival. He will represent the trailer of the movie ‘Mujib’, based on the biography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In his reaction to the festival, Arifin Shuvo said, “It is very pleasant to me as I am going to Cannes for the first time. It feels to me like dream. I have got the chance to attend the festival. This is a big honour for me. I am grateful to my fans as everything has become possible for them. My love to them.” Cannes Film Festival will start on Tuesday (May 17). Actress Nusrat Imroz Tisha, who acted in the role of Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the ‘Mujib’ film, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud might also go to the Cannes. Besides, the Indian information minister along with some team members of the film will also present. Mujib, film is co-produced by Bangladesh and India and directed by Shyam Benegal. It stars Arifin Shuvo leads the role of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Also read: World premiere of ‘Mujib Amar Pita’ held

Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” a wild body-horror thriller featuring sex with a car and a surprisingly tender heart, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Ducournau just the second female filmmaker to win the festival’s top honor in its 74 year history. The win on Saturday was mistakenly announced by jury president Spike Lee at the top of the closing ceremony, broadcast in France on Canal+, unleashing a few moments of confusion. Ducournau, a French filmmaker, didn’t come to the stage to accept the award until the formal announcement at the end of the ceremony. But the early hint didn’t diminish from her emotional response. “I’m sorry, I keep shaking my head,” said Ducournau, catching her breath. “Is this real? I don’t know why I’m speaking English right now because I’m French. This evening has been so perfect because it was not perfect.” Read Best Comedy Movies of All Time: Humour in Films through Century After several false starts, Lee implored Sharon Stone to make the Palme d’Or announcement, explaining: “She’s not going to mess it up.” The problems started earlier when Lee was asked to say which prize would be awarded first. Instead, he announced the evening’s final prize, as fellow juror Mati Diop plunged her head into her hands and others rushed to stop him. Lee, himself, spent several moments with his head in his hands before apologizing profusely for taking a lot of the suspense out of the evening. “I have no excuses,” Lee told reporters afterward. “I messed up. I’m a big sports fan. It’s like the guy at the end of the game who misses the free throw.” Read Rehana Maryam Noor is one of the most powerful films from South Asia: Anurag Kashyap “I messed up,” he added. “As simple as that.” Ducournau’s win was a long-awaited triumph. The only previous female filmmaker to win Cannes’ top honor — among the most prestigious awards in cinema — was Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993. In recent years, frustration at Cannes’ gender parity has grown, including in 2018, when 82 women — including Agnes Varda, Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek — protested gender inequality on the Cannes red carpet. Their number signified the movies by female directors selected to compete for the Palme d’Or — 82 compared to 1,645 films directed by men. This year, four out of 24 films up for the Palme were directed by women. In 2019, another genre film — Bong Joon-Ho’s “Parasite” — took the Palme before going on to win best picture at the Academy Awards, too. That choice was said to be unanimous by the jury led by Alejandro González Iñárritu, but the award for “Titane” — an extremely violent film — this year’s jury said came out of a democratic process of conversation and debate. Juror Maggie Gyllenhaal said they didn’t agree unanimously on anything. Read  ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Review: The Bangladeshi movie screened in 74th Cannes Film Festival “The world is passion,” said Lee. “Everyone was passionate about a particular film they wanted and we worked it out.” In “Titane,” which like “Parasite” will be distributed in the U.S. by Neon, Agathe Rousselle plays a serial killer who flees home. As a child, a car accident leaves her with a titanium plate in her head and a strange bond with automobiles. In possibly the most-talked-about scene at the festival, she’s impregnated by a Cadillac. Lee called it a singular experience. “This is the first film ever where a Cadillac impregnates a woman,” said Lee, who said he wanted to ask Ducournau what year the car was. “That’s genius and craziness together. Those two things often match up.” Read Azmeri Haque Badhon: Starring the Title Role of 'Rehana Maryam Noor' Film Premiered in 74th Cannes On stage, Ducournau thanked the jury “for letting the monsters in.” Afterward, she acknowledged to reporters her place in history, but also said she “can’t be boiled down to just being a woman.” “Quite frankly, I hope that the prize I received has nothing to do with being a woman,” said Ducournau. “As I’m the second woman to receive this prize, I thought a lot about Jane Campion and how she felt when she won.” More women will come after her, Ducournau said. “There will be a third, there will be a fourth, there will be a fifth.” Read Dilip Kumar: Life History, Success Story of the Legendary Indian Film Star Cannes’ closing ceremony capped 12 days of red-carpet premieres, regular COVID-19 testing for many attendees and the first major film festival to be held since the pandemic began in almost its usual form. With smaller crowds and mandated mask-wearing in theaters, Cannes pushed forward with an ambitious slate of global cinema. Last year’s festival was completely canceled by the pandemic. The slate, assembled as a way to help stir movies after a year where movies shrank to smaller screens and red carpets grew cobwebs, was widely considered to be strong, and featured many leading international filmmakers. The awards were spread out widely. The grand prize was split between Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama “A Hero” and Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6.” Read Abdullah Mohammad Saad: The Director of ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Best director was awarded to Leos Carax for “Annette,” the fantastical musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard that opened the festival. The award was accepted by the musical duo Sparks, Ron and Russell Mael, who wrote the script and music for the film. Jurors also split the jury prize. That was awarded to both Nadav Lapid’s “Ahed’s Knee,” an impassioned drama about creative freedom in modern Isreal; and to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasthakul’s “Memoria,” a meditative film starring Tilda Swinton. Caleb Landry Jones took home the best actor prize for his performance as an Australian mass killer in the fact-based “Nitram” by Justin Kurzel. Renate Reinsve won best actress for Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World.” Best screenplay went to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” a Haruki Murakami adaptation he penned with Takamasa Oe. Read Asia in Cannes: Spotlight on Asian Movies in 74th Cannes Film Festival The Croatian coming-of-age drama “Murina,” by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, took the Camera d’Or award, a non-jury prize, for best first feature. Kusijanović was absent from the ceremony after giving birth a day earlier. Lee was the first Black jury president at Cannes. His fellow jury members were: Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Song Kang-ho, Tahar Rahim, Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Mylène Farmer. Read Best Movies Preview: The Anticipation on the Run for Cannes Film Festival 2021

An individual has to make diverse decisions throughout life. When a person stays firm about a decision knowing that he will have to pay the ultimate price in the future, the person has to be at his strongest. Rehana Maryam Noor is such a stubborn character. Written and directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad, Rehana Maryam Noor has made history by representing Bangladesh in the 'Un Certain Regard' section at the Cannes International Film Festival. 'Rehana Maryam Noor (2021)' Movie Review Although Rehana is the main character in the movie, the story revolves around the harassment of her student, Annie.  In whose name the movie, Rehana Maryam Noor is a single mother of a 6-year-old girl. Raising a daughter alone, taking care of father, mother, and brother, raising expenses - all she has to do single-handedly. Nevertheless, such people have to be strong! But we see how persistent she is as she always wears her husband's watch. Read Rehana Maryam Noor screened at Cannes amid standing ovation Rehana is a 37-year-old- medical college teacher. To prove the insistence of this medical college teacher, the director showed that she was sitting next to the student to catch cheating in the exam hall, and she became successful in that too. The talented director Saad depicted all these small but meaningful incidents to create the context of the story.

The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the first time in more than two years on Tuesday, launching the French Riviera spectacular with the premiere of Leos Carax’s “Annette,” the introduction of Spike Lee’s jury, and with high hopes for shrugging off a punishing pandemic year for cinema. The 74th Cannes opened Tuesday with as much glitz as it could summon, led by “Annette,” a fantastical musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and scored by the musical duo Sparks. The opening ceremony also returned last year’s Palme d’Or winner, Bong Joon Ho (for “Parasite”) and Jodie Foster, who first came to Cannes as a 13-year-old with Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” for an honorary Palme. The occasion drew a wide spectrum of film luminaries back to Cannes to celebrate the festival, canceled last year due to the COVID-19 virus. Pedro Almodovar, Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren and Bella Hadid walked the red carpet, which was again lined with tuxedoed photographers and surrounded by eager onlookers. “So it feels good to go out,” said Foster in French. Read:Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar dies “Vivre la France!” declared Lee. The festival was officially declared open by Bong, Almodovar, Foster and Lee, in a mix of Korean, Spanish, French and English. Over the next 10 days, the Cannes Film Festival will try to resuscitate global cinema on a grand scale. Cannes has pushed ahead in much its usual form, with splashy red-carpet displays and a lineup of many of the world’s most revered filmmakers, including Asghar Farhadi, Wes Anderson, Mia Hansen-Love and Paul Verhoeven. Festivalgoers are tested every 48 hours, seated shoulder to shoulder and masked for screenings. Lee, who is heading the jury that will decide this year’s Palme, arrived earlier in the day wearing a “1619” baseball hat and trying to keep a low profile. “I’m not trying to be a hog,” he said to reporters, urging them to ask his fellow jurors questions. But Lee’s presence was hard to ignore. His face as Mars Blackmon from his 1986 feature film debut “She’s Gotta Have It” (which premiered at Cannes) adorns this year’s poster at the festival central hub, the Palais des Festivals. Lee is the first Black person to ever lead Cannes’ prestigious jury. In his first comments, in response to a question from Chaz Ebert, widow of Roger Ebert, Lee spoke about how little has changed since 1989′s “Do the Right Thing” — which made a controversial debut at Cannes. “When you see brother Eric Garner, when you see king George Floyd murdered, lynched, I think of Ray (Radio) Raheem,” Lee said, referring to the “Do the Right Thing” character. After 30-plus years, you’d “think and hope,” Lee said, “that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals.” Much of the talk on Tuesday at Cannes centered on injustice and survival. That the festival was even happening, after last year’s edition was canceled, was a surprise to some. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who’ll see the 24 films in competition for the Palme as a member of the jury over the next 12 days, said it will be her first time in a movie theater in 15 months. When “Parasite” actor Song Kang Ho was invited to be a juror, he said, “I thought: Will there really be a festival?” “The fact that we’re here today, it’s really a miracle,” said Song. Read:Bollywood actor Fatima behind Aamir Khan's divorce? Still, much of the usual pomp is toned down this year. There’s a relative dearth of promotion up and down Cannes’ oceanfront promenade, the Croisette, and Hollywood has less of a role than in years past. Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), a juror, added that in some parts of the world, cinema is under siege. In President Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, he said, the national cinematheque has been closed and its staff dismantled. “This is a very clear demonstration of contempt for cinema and for culture,” said Filho, who noted the tragedy of Brazil reaching 500,000 dead from COVID-19 when, he said, many thousands could have been saved by a stronger governmental response. That conversation was prompted in part by a Georgian journalist who asked jury members about resistance. Russia invaded the former Soviet republic in 2008. “The world is run by gangsters,” said Lee, listing former U.S. President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In that context, the regular topics of concern at Cannes were perhaps dwarfed. But the jurors made passionate cases for the future of movies — and a more inclusive future. This year’s competition lineup includes a Cannes-high four female filmmakers, but they still make up a fraction of the 24 filmmakers vying for the Palme. Read:Asia in Cannes: Spotlight on Asian Movies in 74th Cannes Film Festival “I think when women are listening to themselves and really expressing themselves, even inside, about a very, very male culture, we make movies differently. We tell stories differently,” said Gyllenhaal. She recalled watching Jane Campion’s “The Piano” (the lone film directed by a woman to ever win the Palme) as formative and unfiltered. “It just went in straight.” The rise of streaming also took the spotlight. Cannes has refused to select films without French theatrical distribution for its competition lineup. The festival and Netflix have been at odds for several years. On Monday, Thierry Fremaux, festival director, cited Cannes’ record at discovering filmmakers and asked: “What directors have been discovered by (streaming) platforms?” Lee, who made last year’s “Da 5 Bloods” for Netflix, hardly bated an eye when asked about the subject. “Cinema and screening platforms can coexist,” said Lee, who called Cannes “the world’s greatest film festival.” “At one time, there was a thinking that TV was going to kill cinema. So, this stuff is not new.”

The curtain of Cannes Film Festival 2021 is finally going to unveil on July 7 at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes of France. It will continue till its grand finale on July 17 when the winner of Palm d’Or will be announced. After its founding in 1946, Cannes Film Festival has been recognizing films of new styles around the world every year. Pierre Lescure, the French journalist and TV executive elected as president in 2014, is remaining as the president. Thierry Fremaux, who became the general delegate of the festival in 2007, is coordinating the entire event. Movies Lineup in Cannes Film Festival 2021 Official Selection In Competition 1. Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’ 2. Ildiko Enyedi’s ‘The Story of My Wife’ 3. Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’ 4. Mia Hanse’s ‘Bergman Island’ 5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ 6. Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ 7. Nadav Lapid’s ‘Ahed's Knee’ 8. Nabil Ayouch’s ‘Casablanca Beats’ 9. Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Compartment No 6’ 10. Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy’s final part ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 11. Catherine Corsini’s ‘The Divide’ 12. Joachim Lafosse’s ‘The Restless Ones’ 13. Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris' 13th District’ 14. Saleh Haroun’s ‘Lingui’ 15. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’ 16. Justin Kurzel’s ‘Nitram’ 17. Bruno Dumont’s ‘France’ 18. Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Petrov's Flu’ 19. Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket’ 20. Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ 21. Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titan’ 22. Nanni Moretti’s ‘Three Floors’ 23. Francois Ozon’s ‘Everything Went Well’ 24. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ Read Greatest Love Stories in Celluloid: Hollywood’s Best Romantic Movies of All Time Un Certain Regard 1. Arthur Harari’s ‘Onoda’ 2. C.B Yi’s ‘Money Boys’ 3. Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ 4. Gessica Geneus’s ‘Freda’ 5. Alexey German Jr.’s ‘House Arrest’ 6. Hafsia Herzi’s ‘Bonne Mere’ 7. Tatiana Huezo’s ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ 8. Valdimar Johannsson’s ‘Lamb’ 9. Semih Kaplanoglu’s ‘Commitment Hasan’ 10. Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ 11. Eran Kolirin’s ‘Let There Be Morning’ 12. Kira Kovalenko’s ‘Unclenching The Fists’ 13. Youhann Manca’s ‘La Traviata, My Brothers And I’ 14. Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s ‘Women Do Cry’ 15. Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ 16. Sebastian Meise’s ‘Great Freedom’ 17. Teodora Ana Mihai’s ‘La Civil’ 18. Na Jiazuo’s ‘Gaey Wa'r’ 19. Eskil Vogt’s ‘The Innocents’ 20. Laura Wandel’s ‘Playground’ Read Suman Ghosh’s Film Searching for Happiness is to Feature in London Indian Film Festival 2021 Out of Competition 1. Nicholus Bedos’s ‘OSS 117: From Africa with Love’ 2. Emmanuelle Bercot’s ‘Peaceful’ 3. Ani Folman’s ‘Where is Anne Frank’ 4. Han Jae-rim’s ‘Emergency Declaration’ 5. Todd Haynes’s ‘The Velvet Underground’ 6. Cedric Jimenez’s ‘Bac Nord’ 7. Valérie Lemercier’s ‘Aline, The Voice Of Love’ 8. Tom McCarthy’s ‘Stillwater’ Read Rehana Maryam Noor: The Bangladeshi Film in the prestigious list of Cannes Cinema De La Plage 1. Justin Lin’s ‘Fast and Furious 9’ Midnight Screening 1. Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s ‘Bloody Oranges’ 2. Audrey Estrougo’s ‘Supremes’ 3. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s ‘Tralala’ Cannes Premier 1. Mathieu Amalric’s ‘Hold Me Tight’ 2. Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow’ 3. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Marx Can Wait’ 4. Samuel Benchetrit’s ‘Love Songs For Tough Guys’ 5. Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Deception’ 6. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s ‘Jane’ by Charlotte  7. Hong Sang-soo’s ‘In Front Of Your Face’ 8. Eva Husson’s ‘Mothering Sunday’ 9. Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Evolution’ 10. Gaspar Noe’s ‘Vortex’ 11. Ting Poo and Leo Scott’s ‘Val’ 12. Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry Special Screening 1. Karim Ainouz’s ‘Mariner of the Mountains’ 2. Shlomi Elkabetz’s ‘Black Notebooks I and II’ 3. Nadav Lapid’s ‘The Star’ 4. Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Babi Yar. Context’ 5. Noemi Merlant’s ‘Mi Iubita Mon Amour’ 6. Andrew Muscato’s ‘New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization’  7. Maxim Roy’s ‘The Heroics’ 8. Wen Shipei’s ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ 9. Ye Ye’s ‘H6’ 10. Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ 11. Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A New Generation Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021 Cinema for the Climate 1. Marie Amiguet’s ‘Velvet Queen’ 2. Cyril Dion’s ‘Animal’ 3. Louise Garrel’s ‘The Crusade’ 4. Rahul Jain’s ‘Invisible Demons’ 5. Zhao Liang’s ‘I Am So Sorry’ 6. Aissa Maiga’s ‘Above Water’ 7. Flore Vasseur’s ‘Bigger Than Us’ Short Film 1. Marija Apcevska’s ‘North Pole’ 2. Samir Karahoda’s ‘Displaced’ 3. Casper Kjeldsen’s ‘In the Soil’ 4. Mohammadreza Mayghani’s ‘Orthodontics’ 5. Adrian Moyse Dullin’s ‘The Right Words’ 6. Diogo Salgado’s ‘Through the Haze’ 7. Carlos Segundo’s ‘Sideral’ 8. Tang Yi’s ‘All the Crows in the World’ 9. Jasmin Tenucci’s ‘August Sky’ 10. Wu Lang’s ‘Absence’ Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021 Cinefondation 1. Sacha Amaral’s ‘Billy Boy’ 2. Carina-Gabriela Dasoveanu’s ‘Love Stories on the Move’ 3. Theo Degen’s ‘The Salamander Child’ 4. Natalia Durszewicz’s ‘Beasts among Us’ 5. Huang Menglu’s ‘The Cat from the Deep Sea’ 6. Lina Kalcheva’s ‘Other Half’ 7. Mya Kaplan Habikur’s ‘Night Visit’ 8. Auden Lincoln-Vogel’s ‘Bill and Joe Go Duck Hunting’ 9. Aleksandra Odic’s ‘Frida’ 10. Anna Podskalska’s ‘Red Shoes’ 11. Gonzalo Quincoces’s ‘The Fall of the Swift’ 12. Rodrigo Ribeyro’s ‘Cantareira’ 13. Oliver Rudolf’s ‘Fonica M-120’ 14. Oskar Kristinn Viginsson’s ‘Free Men’ 15. Adele Vincenti-Crasson’s ‘King Max’ 16. Lukas Von Berg’s ‘Saint Android’ 17. Yoon Daewoen’s ‘Cicada’ Read Free Online Movies: Best Netflix Alternatives for Streaming Movies in 2021 Cannes Classic 1. Marcel Camus’s ‘Black Orpheus’ of 1959 2. Vojtech Jasny’s ‘The Cassandra Cat’ of 1963 3. Henri Duparc’s ‘Dancing in the Dust’ of 1989 4. Philippe de Broca’s ‘Dear Louise’ of 1972 5. Masahiro Shinoda’s ‘Demon Pond’ of 1979 6. Marta Meszaros’s ‘Diary for My Children’ of 1983 7. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘The Double Life of Veronique’ of 1991 8. Orson Welles’s ‘F for Fake’ of 1973 9. Roberto Rossellini’s ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’ of 1950 10. Zdravko Velimirovic’s ‘The Fourteenth Day’ of 1960 11. Peter Wollen’s ‘Friendship’s Death’ of 1987 12. Jacques Doillon’s ‘The Hussy’ of 1978 13. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ of 1945 14. Bill Duke’s ‘The Killing Floor’ of 1985 15. Max Ophuls’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ of 1948 16. Raoul Peck’s ‘Lumumba, Death of a Prophet’ of 1990 17. Kinuyo Tanaka’s ‘The Moon Has Risen’ of 1955 18. David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ of 2001 19. Oscar Micheaux’s ‘Murder in Harlem’ of 1935 20. Gilles Grangier’s ‘Not Delivered’ of 1957 21. Ana Mariscal’s ‘The Path’ of 1958 22. Pietro Germi’s ‘Path of Hope’ of 1950 23. Tengiz Abuladze’s ‘Repentance’ of 1987 24. Alain Resnais’s ‘The War Is Over’ of 1966 Read Best Iranian Movies 2021 to Watch during Ramadan Fasting Latest Documentary 25. Yves Jeuland’s ‘All About Yves Montand’ 26. Javier Espada’s ‘Bunuel, A Surrealist Filmmaker’ 27. Andre Bonzel’s ‘Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone’ 28. Francesco Zippel’s ‘Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Blck Filmmaking’  29. Pascal-Alex Vincent’s ‘Satoshi Kon: The Dream Machine’ 30. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’ 31. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ Parallel Sections International Critics’ Week Feature Films 1. Simon Mesa Soto’s ‘Amparo’ 2. Omar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’ 3. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s ‘The Gravedigger’s wife’ 4. Clara Roquet’s ‘Libertad’ 5. Elie Grappe’s ‘Olga’ 6. Laura Samani’s ‘Small Body’ 7. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Zero F*cks Given’ Read 10 Best Adventure Movies Released in 2021 Short Films 1. Manolis Mavris’s ‘Brutalia, Days of Labour’ 2. Zou Jing’s ‘Lili Alone’  3. Hao Zhao & Yeung Tung’s ‘An Invitation’  4. Nicolai G.H. Johansen’s ‘Inherent’  5. Andrei Epure’s ‘Intercom 15’  6. Elinor Nechemya’s ‘If It Ain’t Broke’  7. Marie Larrive’s ‘Noir-Soleil’  8. Ian Barling’s ‘Safe’  9. Jimmy Laporal-Tresor’s ‘Soldat Noir’  10. Jela Hasler’s ‘On Solid Ground’  Special Screenings 1. Constance Meyer’s ‘Robust’  2. Vincent Le Port’s ‘Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer’  3. Samuel Theis’ ‘Softie’  4. Sandrine Kiberlain’s ‘A Radiant Girl’  5. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘Anais in Love’  6. Leyla Bouzid’s ‘A Story of Love and Desir’  Read Superstar Aamir Khan, filmmaker wife announce divorce Films for Invitations 1. Pablo Giles’ ‘Bisho’ 2. Jorge Sistos Moreno’s ‘La Oscuridad’  3. Indra Villasennor Amador’s ‘Pinky Promise’  4. Mariano Renteriia Garnica’s ‘A face covered with kisses’  Directors Fortnight Feature films 1. Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Chiara’  2. Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’  3. Clio Barnard’s ‘Ali & Ava’  4. Nathalie Alvarez Mesen’s ‘Clara Sola’  5. Yassine Qnia’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’  6. Miguel Gomes’ ‘The Tsugua Diaries’  7. Manuel Nieto Zas’ ‘The Employer and the Employee’  8. Anais Volpe’s ‘The Braves’  9. Haider Rashid’s ‘Europa’  10. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Futura’  11. Radu Muntean’s ‘Intregalde’  12. Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit The Road’  13. Vincent Mael Cardona’s ‘Magnetic Beats’  14. Luana Bajrami’s ‘The Hill where Lionesses Roar’  15. Anita Rocha da Silveira’s ‘Medusa’  16. Rachel Lang’s ‘Our Men’  17. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s ‘Murina’  18. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Neptune Frost’ 19. Emmanuel Carrere’s ‘Between Two Worlds’  20. Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ ‘The Tale of King Crab’  21. Jean-Gabriel Periot’s ‘Returning to Reims (Fragments)’ 22. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II’ 23. Shujun Wei’s ‘Ripples of Life’ 24. Ely Dagher’s ‘The Sea Ahead’ Read Will Smith opening up, releasing memoir ‘Will’ in November Special Screenings 1. Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Monrovia, Indiana’  2. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part I’  Short and Medium Length Movies 1. Eddie Alcazar’s ‘The Vandal’  2. Andreea Cristina Bortun’s ‘When Night Meets Dawn’  3. Mathilde Chavanne’s ‘Simone Is Gone’  4. Diego Marcon’s ‘The Parents’ Room’  5. Alberto Mielgo’s ‘The Windshield Viper’  6. Yoriko Mizushiri’s ‘Anxious Body’  7. Lois Patino and Matias Pineiro’s ‘Sycorax’  8. Sebastian Schjaer’s ‘The Sidereal Space’  9. Peter Tscherkassky’s ‘Train Again’  Summing up Like previous years, Cannes Film Festival 2021 will also be filled with the marching sounds of the new brilliant filmmakers. Despite the notion of its bringing the European films as art films, World filmmakers will get some tips to come out of the orthodox films and meet the new film appetite of the cinephiles. Read Bollywood: 'There is no life without you'

Rehana Maryam Noor got a prestigious place at the 74th Cannes as the first Bangladeshi film to get. The Cannes Film Festival is going to be held from 6 to 17 July. And so, on June 3, the names of the selected films were announced on all social media of Cannes, including its official website. The name of Rehana Maryam Noor of Bangladesh has come up in the list of 18 films of the Un Certain Regard in Cannes. This is a huge achievement in the film industry of Bangladesh. Let's get to know the details of this new movie and its achievements. Background of ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Rehana Maryam Noor, a 37-year-old teacher at a private medical college, was carrying on her work and family life in hundreds of troubles like others. Her life suddenly began to change when one evening she saw an unpleasant incident involving a college female student. From then on, she took the side of that female student and protested against the incident by standing against a fellow teacher. Meanwhile, her 6-year-old daughter experienced misconduct at school. In such unfavorable situations, Rehana was determined to make every effort to ensure justice for that female student and her child by breaking the shackles of the traditional rules. Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry Screenplay and direction by Abdullah Mohammad Saad Young filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad has written the screenplay and then turned it into a movie. While studying at the Institute of Education and Research of Dhaka University, he started writing screenplays for TV dramas. He also made several short films. Saad wrote the screenplay for producer Wahid Tareq's 'Alga Nongor'. Earlier in 2009, Wahid Tareq directed some TV dramas with Saad's 'August-e Lekha Golposhomogro', 'Little Angel I Am Dying' and 'Akti Jothajotho Mrittu'. His first feature film 'Live from Dhaka' won the Silver Screen Award for Best Director and Best Performance (Mostafa Monwar) at the 27th Singapore International Film Festival. When it was fully featured as the first film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), it surprised the Bangladeshi film community. In addition, in 2017, the film was nominated as the best film at the Five Flavor Asian Film Festival. Through multiple vignettes, this black and white film portrays the suffering of a disabled person who is trying to leave Dhaka city. Eventually ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ was made under the banner of Protocol and Metro Video. The film has been produced by Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua and co-produced by Sensemakers Productions along with Rajiv Mahajan, Adnan Habib, and Saidul Haque Khandaker. Ehsanul Haque Babu is the executive producer. Besides, Tuhin Tamizul worked as a cinematographer, Nabila Haque as a costume designer, Masum Mehdi as an art director, and Shaib Talukder as a sound designer. Films Boutique, a German-based company, has already signed a contract with the director-producer for the international distribution of 'Rehana Maryam Noor'. Read Free Online Movies: Best Netflix Alternatives for Streaming Movies in 2021 Badhon in the title role of Rehana Maryam Noor Ajmery Haque Badhon, the runner-up of 'Lux Channel I Superstar 2006', played the lead role in Rehana Maryam Noor. More regularly on the small screen, the actress has starred in only one movie titled Nijhum Oranye (2010). Badhon started working on Rehana Maryam Noor movie taking a one-and-a-half year break from the media. She thinks that working in this movie was the best decision of her career. Bandhan and all the crew are being congratulated for this outstanding achievement. Apart from Bandhan, the other people who have acted in this 1 hour and 48 minutes movie are- Saberi Alam, Afia Zahin Jaima, Afia Tabassum Varna, Kazi Sami Hasan, Yasir Al Haq, Jopari Louis, Farzana Bithi, Jahed Chowdhury Mithu, Khushiyara Khushboo Oni, Avradit Chowdhury Etc. Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021 ‘Un Certain Regard’ of Cannes Among the four categories in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the next category to Competition is ‘Un Certain Regard’. This is considered to be the most important category after the Competition section. Unique and different films about the culture of different countries are mainly included in this category. The department was launched in 1978 to bring talented and promising young filmmakers from around the world to the limelight. Un Certain Regard is a French word means 'from another point of view'. The festival is held annually at the Palais De Festival center in the coastal city of Cannes in southern France. In the hall of this building, there is an exhibition of films of the Un Certain Regard section in the Debussy Auditorium. This year, 18 films from 15 countries including Bangladesh have been selected in the category. On the last day of the festival, July 17, Judges President Spike Lee will announce the name of the Golden Palm winner. Read Bengali OTT Platforms for Watching Movies, Web Series, Musical Shows A big step in making world-class films Earlier, the late producer Tareque Masud’s film 'Matir Moyna' was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival for the first time. It was selected in 2002 at the 55th Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Fortnight of Parallel section. It also won the Fipresci Award for Best Film. In 2021, Bangladesh went one big step further through the inclusion of Rehana Maryam Noor under the Un Certain Regard Division. This achievement will now be attached to the poster of the movie and will carry the value of Bangladesh in every exhibition. All in all, this will prove that world-class filmmaking is now possible in Bangladesh as well. In the past, however, some Bengali films and directors have proudly uplifted Bengali films in some prestigious places, including Cannes. But after the birth of Bangladesh, if Bengali movies made by Bangladeshi producers are named, there will be none but Tareque Masud's 'Matir Moyna' and Abdullah Mohammad Saad's 'Rehana Maryam Noor'. Read Best Iranian Movies 2021 to Watch during Ramadan Fasting Verdict Rehana Maryam Noor, produced by Abdullah Mohammad Saad, is a film centering on a contemporary situation in Bangladesh. Besides focusing on some complex issues of our society, this film conveys a message of salvation. The prestigious position at the 74th Cannes Film Festival is encouraging the filmmakers to address the problems of  society through quality films.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival has officially announced its selection of young Bangladeshi director Abdullah Mohammad Saad's 'Rehana Maryam Noor', as one of the 18 films to be featured in its prestigious 'Un Certain Regard' section this year. Following Thursday's (June 03, 2021) announcement, 'Rehana Maryam Noor' is set to become just the second Bangladeshi film to be showcased in a competitive section of the storied festival, arguably the most prestigious and celebrated film showcase in the world. It is of course the first from Bangladesh to be chosen for Un Certain Regard, which translates to 'From Another Angle' in French, and features films that stand out for their unusual styles and often non-traditional storytelling. Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021 Previously, late Tareque Masud-directed Matir Moina (2002) was the first Bangladeshi entry to be screened in competition at the festival, coming away with a prestigious FIPRESCI award. The second directorial venture by talented filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad, 'Rehana Maryam Noor's storyline narrates the tale of the eponymous private medical college teacher who becomes the witness to an unexpected incident while leaving the college one day. Being awestruck with the incident, Noor starts to protest against the incident and the system, as the story moves forward. The ensemble cast of the film features prominent actors including Saberi Alam, Azmeri Haque Badhon, Afia Zahin, Kazi Sami Hasan, Afia Tabassum, Yasir Al Haque and more, in the major roles. Also read: Antonio Banderas grateful for a later-in-life Cannes award Apart from being the director, Saad also wrote the screenplay. His maiden directorial venture was the much-acclaimed film 'Live From Dhaka' (2016). On this historic and prestigious inclusion in one of the major segments of the festival, popular television director Ashfaque Nipun congratulated the film and its associates on social media, writing - "What a great day for Bangladeshi Cinema and Bangladesh! Filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad's 2nd feature film 'Rehana Maryam Noor’ has been officially selected in Cannes Film Festival's "Un Certain Regard" competition! This is the first time any Bangladeshi Film has been nominated in one of the two most significant and important competitions at the "Cannes Film Festival"! A huge huge shout out to Saad and Team 'Rehana Maryam Noor’! You guys have made us proud." Also read: With Brad and Leo, Tarantino debuts a fairy tale in Cannes Official website of Cannes stated that on Thursday, noted French journalist Pierre Lescure and Cannes and Lumiere Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux presented the Official Selection of the 74th Festival de Cannes at the UGC Normandie in Paris. This year's festival is scheduled to take place from July 6 to 17 in Cannes, France. Alongside Un Certain Regard, other segments of this year's festival are 'In Competition', 'Out of Competition', 'Midnight Screenings', 'Cannes Premiere' and 'Special Screenings'. Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021